The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown,, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... evidence before you , in proof that these odious pensioners , so distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous to his affairs , and so disgraceful to our government , were not only not recalled by Mr. Hastings , but that , both afterwards , and ...
... evidence before you , in proof that these odious pensioners , so distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous to his affairs , and so disgraceful to our government , were not only not recalled by Mr. Hastings , but that , both afterwards , and ...
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... evidence the manner , equally despotic , rebellious , insolent , fraudulent , tricking , and evasive , by which he positively refused all inquiry into the matter . How stands it now , more than twelve years after the seizure of their ...
... evidence the manner , equally despotic , rebellious , insolent , fraudulent , tricking , and evasive , by which he positively refused all inquiry into the matter . How stands it now , more than twelve years after the seizure of their ...
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... evidence before your Lordships , that their annual expenses did not exceed a lac and a half , and that their income was about seven lacs ; that they had possessed this for twenty years before the death of Sujah Dowlah , and from the ...
... evidence before your Lordships , that their annual expenses did not exceed a lac and a half , and that their income was about seven lacs ; that they had possessed this for twenty years before the death of Sujah Dowlah , and from the ...
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... of one of these ladies , called the Munny Begum , I will re- fer you to Major Browne's evidence , a man who was at Delhi , the fountain - head of all the nobility - " " of India , and must have known 46 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
... of one of these ladies , called the Munny Begum , I will re- fer you to Major Browne's evidence , a man who was at Delhi , the fountain - head of all the nobility - " " of India , and must have known 46 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
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... evidence have you of this fact ? and if none can be produced , does not the prisoner's defence aggravate infinitely his crime and that of his agents ? Did they ever once state to these unfortunate women that any such rebellion existed ...
... evidence have you of this fact ? and if none can be produced , does not the prisoner's defence aggravate infinitely his crime and that of his agents ? Did they ever once state to these unfortunate women that any such rebellion existed ...
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